NAWALPUR, April 6: Fire incidents are increasingly taking place here, with 38 forest fire incidents occurring in the district so far in the current fiscal year.
A fire broke out at Binayi Triveni rural municipality-2 at around 2.30 pm on Friday. Two buffaloes and three goats were killed in the fire that broke out in the two-storey metal-corrugated house of Nabin Pun at Tamang Tole.
The police personnel are gathering details of the damage caused by the fire.
On the same day at around 3.00 pm, a fire broke out in the straw stock of Rana Bahadur Rai, a resident of Hupsekot-4, Shankhdev village in the district.
The fire was put out right away, and no more damage was caused.
Koshi Province reports 488 fire incidents in three months
The straw pile caught fire when a child was playing with matches. Similarly, a fire broke out in the straw of Shree Prasad Neupane of Ittabhatta Chowk in Gaindakot-1 at around 3.00 pm on Thursday.
The fire damaged and burnt the straw and the cowshed. There was no loss of livestock and human life.
Incidents of fire in personal property have usually been taking place in the district in the daytime.
Although the causes behind the fire incidents in the district are not identified, most of the fire incidents occur due to human error, police said.
Three people have lost their lives to fire in the district. The District Police Office reported that three people had died in three of the 38 fire incidents that occurred during the current fiscal year.
There were 13 incidents reported in the Nepali month of Chaitra alone, with five involving personal property fires and eight involving forest fires.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Madhu Nepal, the District Police Office's information officer, reported that three people were killed in the fire incident that occurred in the current fiscal year during the months of Shrawan, Magh, and Falgun.
"Three persons were killed and eight others sustained injuries in the fire that occurred in the district during the last nine months," he said. A total of 1,600 chickens, two buffaloes, and three goats were killed.
According to Nepal, five houses were partially damaged, seven cowsheds and nine straw piles were destroyed in the fire incidents. A school and a cowshed were partially damaged.
Information Officer Nepal informed that a car was also damaged in the fire that broke out last year.
Although the number of fire incidents has increased in the dry season, there is difficulty in dousing fires in the absence of fire engines.
Of the eight municipalities, only two municipalities — Kawasoti and Devchuli —have their fire engine.
